In a brief in Wednesday’s Business section about the early results of the government’s “cash for clunkers” program, The Associated Press misidentified the program’s title. It is the Cars Allowance Rebate System.
It may not be a light rail system, but it’s pretty darn close. … With buses that look like sleek train cars, dedicated lanes on downtown streets and ticket vending machines, public transit in the Las Vegas Valley will soon have a major upgrade with the introduction of the new ACE rapid transit system.
“Robot Chicken” co-creators Seth Green and Matt Senreich celebrate the release of their latest DVD with a nine-city roller-skating tour that stops 8-10 p.m. Sunday at Rancho Crystal Palace Skating Center, 3901 N. Rancho Drive.
There are 11 minors employed full time by theatrical productions in Las Vegas, including six in “Love,” the Beatles-inspired show by Cirque du Soleil at The Mirage. But Nevada law is vague in regulating child performers.
Five years ago, he would have turned Las Vegas down, dismissing the city as a pretty face with little behind its bright smile.
It’s a simple question, batted around whenever music lovers gather: Which albums were the game-changers, the ones that, either personally or in a wider, more objective sense, altered the course of music in whatever way one might deem important?
JW Caldwell, 35, reaches for a tube of blue Liquitex acrylic paint. It’s hiding between the empty Bud Light can and the Maker’s Mark bourbon bottle on his kitchen counter.
“Mad Men” is back on AMC on Aug. 16, and what better way to commemorate the occasion than by making yourself into a character from the show. Visit www.amctv.com/originals/madmen/madmenyourself/, and select from body types, clothes, hairstyles and facial features. Add a few props, insert yourself in a scene and voila, you’re immersed in the advertising world of the early 1960s.
Larry King’s brief reign as Most Unlikely Vegas Headliner Ever was short-lived. There’s a new champion.
Why this trend didn’t fizzle right along with gangsta rap we don’t know, but pant sagging is alive and well. Need proof? Take a stroll through the Meadows mall.
• Who? Imelda Papin, co-headliner at The Orleans Friday through Sunday with Melissa Manchester
Someone at Bath & Body Works is feeling awfully patriotic. Its new line, American Grown, is a collection of modestly priced hand washes and shower gels named after great American destinations.
As long as Beyoncé is still Beyoncé the words “I don’t have anything to wear” will never touch her lips. Her superstardom has made her a fashion catcher’s mitt, high-end designers throw so many clothes at her. But, her mother and creator of their clothing lines Deréon and House of Deréon, Tina Knowles, remembers a time when the only thing designers threw her way was a snub.
The trade show built around the part of fashion you can still wear after a monthlong carb binge comes to Las Vegas Friday through Sunday. The World Shoes and Accessories (WSA) show, held at the Las Vegas Convention Center and The Venetian, brings thousands of shoes, handbags and hats to town. But it’s the shoes that rule the show.
Back on the day President Obama nominated 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., the man who chortled while celebrating the federal actions that burned to death dozens of minority women and children at the Mount Carmel Church in Waco, Texas, 16 years ago, warned his Republican colleagues that any who opposed this nomination would do so at their “own peril.”
Boot Camp Las Vegas owner Julie Johnston should consider moonlighting as a lobbyist, or — as the Euphemism Police prefer to call them — a “government relations specialist.” When ordered by heavy-handed Clark County officials to keep her fitness classes out of public parks, the businesswoman challenged a bureaucracy overflowing with arrogance and short on common sense — all the way to the County Commission.
Regulators are shining a spotlight into Las Vegas’ booming nightclub industry. The new scrutiny, particularly this month’s decisions by gaming regulators to fine Planet Hollywood Resort $500,000 and by the county to deny Privé a liquor license, has prompted new interest in the class aimed at increasing professionalism in the nightclub industry.
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Penn National Gaming’s profit fell some 23 percent in the second quarter as lower-than-expected results from its casinos in Indiana, West Virginia and New Mexico drove down results.
Organizers of the largest annual trade show and convention in North America are walking out on space at the Sands Expo and Convention Center.
A bankruptcy court judge in Reno will begin hearing motions today in Station Casinos’ bankruptcy case, which one analyst suggested could last at least a year.
Las Vegas, for now, has the funds to pay for union contracts that have been hammered out or altered in light of a grim economic picture, Mayor Oscar Goodman said Thursday.
But only for now.
“We’ve probably managed our funds better than anyone else in the entire valley, to be quite frank with you, and we can’t say that we’re broke,” he said.